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James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1849 - July 22, 1916

Topics

Nature Bird Duck See I See Call

When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.

Day Road Forward Hotel Every Day

New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.

John Cameron Mitchell

New York People City You Unique New

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Knowledge Freedom People Liberty

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.

Women Relationship Bond Husband You

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

Justice Hell Down Capture Follow

I could never know someone who could hurt someone else and not feel like a horrible person.

Hurt Feel Someone Person Know Never

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Optimism Comedy Acting Out

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

Music Me Mom Start Stop Play

I don't like nouvelle cuisine, too small bits. I like to have a nice wine, nice pasta, tomatoes.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Small Wine Nice Pasta Like Cuisine

When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.

Grateful Book Saying You Traveled

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Time King You Captain Stage Sell

My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'

Friend Me Writing Inspire Seattle

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